Open knowledge and education at the new
level of web paradigm
Usage of the open knowledge online services, social
networking and education
Pedagogical Faultlines, International Workshop on Alternatives in Education ,
Amsterdam, September 2007
danica.radovanovic@gmail.com

The term knowledge is taken to include:
(OKD) sets out principles to define the 'open' in open
knowledge:
1.Content such as music, films, books, software
2. Data - scientific, historical, geographic or otherwise
3. Government and other administrative information

The simplest form:
quot;A piece of knowledge is open if you are
free to use, reuse, and redistribute itquot;

The concept of openness has already started to
spread rapidly beyond its original roots in academia
and software.

Open Knowledge Definition (OKD)
We already have:
• 'open access' journals, databases, e-resources
• open archives, open geodata, open content etc.
As the concept spreads so we are seeing a proliferation of
licenses and a potential blurring of what is open and
what is not.

About the Definition
http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0/
What the Definition is Not
http://www.opendefinition.org/about

Web science - study of the web
• creative medium
• TBL- building a new Web, a better Web, building things
on top of the Web infrastructure
• studying Web systems is now an official discipline
(university courses –curriculum)
• toread:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/610933
2.stm

interactive way of learning -open educational resources

video
http://nostatic.com/work/diyTimed-web.mov
Todd Richmond’s presentation on open educational resources and Bob
Stein’s presentation

Open access
• E-LIS - http://eprints.rclis.org/
• PLoS - http://www.plosone.org/home.action
• eIFL - http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/home
• Google scholar - http://scholar.google.com/
• iTunesU – audio, video content
http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu//
• Wikipedia
• ….and more

…
• Free Mac classroom - software packages and teaching
resources for schools,academia and offer wide coverage
of the curriculum.
http://web.mac.com/simon_elliott/iWeb/simon_elliott@mac.com/Soft
ware.html
– free online material
• MIT open course ware
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm

Science blogs?
• Science blogs – SEED mag., 61
http://scienceblogs.com/
• Nature blog network:
http://network.nature.com/
• KoBSON eConsortia, Serbia
http://kobson.wordpress.com/

Open science and knowledge: science blogs!
Why?
“Blogs would have been a great medium for interaction,
publishing, communication and collaboration in science,
a good place for showcasing [Serbian] scientific
achievement, which has been in the shade lately.”
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/07/13/serbias-one-and-only-
science-blog-help-save-it/

…
Content, information, science
Authority, author, group, institutional
1000 sci - edu blogs in English blogosphere

Typology
Classroom blogs- -universities, scientific institutes, lectures.
Open notebook blogs - rare, notes, results from lab.
Business science blogs- sci-magazines, journals, information.
Life In Science blogs – personal blogs, scientists, researchers,
academia, science institutes etc.
Popular blogs – taking over the papers and trasnforms into
accessible terminology to the wider audience.
Politics of Science blogs – political, religious issues, focus is
science and scientific research (from Creationism to Global
Warming).

microblogging forms / (SNS) in eLearning

to consider and discuss
wiki page to edit (thoughts, experiences, information…)
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/pedagogical_faultlines/pedagogical_faultlines?t

Open knowledge and science
• iCommons:
http://www.icommons.org/agenda/pedagogical-faultlines-international-
conference-in-amsterdam
• FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=4782262954
Group e-learning professionals:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2366036917
• Belgrade and Beyond:
http://danicar.wordpress.com/
• Follow me on twitter:
ID: simpathique

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Danica Radovanovic
MSc.Information management professional
Project coordinator, Web activist, blogger
E-LIS editor, Serbia
http://eprints.rclis.org/
http://eprints.rclis.org/
blog: http://danicar.wordpress.com
site:http://danicaradovanovic.org
skype: zmajche